The Liverpool Biennial is always a rag-bag extravaganza, but this time, coinciding as it does with the city's European Capital of Culture designation, it promises to be a special one. Events range through the John Moores at the Walker, an open-submission competition that hopefully reveals the art of painting to be pulsing; the Bloomberg New Contemporaries at the A Foundation, as good a glimpse as you're likely to get of what our most artistically impish students have been up to; site-specific public installations (Yoko Ono's back in town); and a show of modernist architectural design by Le Corbusier in the Metropolitan Cathedral. The Tate show, with international artists including David Altmejd has this year thankfully opted for no more restrictive overall theme than Made Up. Well, all art is, isn't it?

· Various venues, Sat 20 to Nov 30

· This article was amended on Wednesday September 24 2008. In our preview of the Liverpool Biennial we said that it included work by Ellen Page Wilson. We should have said that the biennial included work by David Altmejd. This has been corrected.